Amanda Birnbaum • Public Health
Paterson Grow Healthy
US Environmental Protection Agency
$5,000
This award from the Paterson Grow Healthy project will provide paid internship opportunities to five MSU undergraduate public health students to be food waste educators. Their work will support the main project goal: to increase awareness about the food cycle and food waste as an environmental issue in Paterson Public Schools, to prompt students to make food choices that will reduce waste. The interns will work in Paterson elementary schools, with students, science teachers, and food service/maintenance workers.

Pankaj Lal • Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center (CESAC)
To Perform RGGI Related Economic and Energy Dispatch Modeling
NJ Board of Public Utilities
$231,865
CESAC will assess the impacts New Jersey rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) through economic and energy dispatch models. This work will assess the potential size of that leakage, the economic impacts of that leaking potential in terms of energy prices/cost, and methods to mitigate the leakage potential including the value of any offsetting benefits.

Douglas Larkin • Secondary and Special Education
Sandra Adams • Biology
Studying the Retention of Novice Science Teachers by Learning from School District Induction and Mentoring Programs – Year 2
National Science Foundation
$368,602
In year two and the second phase of a five-year grant, Dr. Douglas Larkin and Dr. Sandra Adams will investigate the five-year science teacher retention rates in four U.S. states (New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), and then examine and describe high-quality induction and mentoring programs in identified school districts through a set of case studies that will promote best practices in design and implementation.

Bryan Murdock • Center for Community Engagement
Krystal Woolston • Center for Community Engagement
Randall FitzGerald • NJ School of Conservation
����vlog EECO Project – Year 1
NJ Commission on National and Community Service
$229,541
The thirty-one AmeriCorps members in this program will: assist students in Orange, New Jersey; serve at ����vlog recruiting volunteers for local communities; and serve at the New Jersey School of Conservation providing conservation education. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for improving academic achievement for four hundred students in Orange Public Schools, providing environmental education and conservation methods to three thousand middle school students and teachers, and leverage two thousand volunteers throughout local communities.

David Rotella • Chemistry and Biochemistry
John Siekierka • Chemistry and Biochemistry
Development of Inhibitors of P. falciparum cGMP Dependent Protein Kinase (PfPKG) for Malaria Chemoprevention – Year 3
National Institutes of Health
$253,047
In the final year of this three-year grant, Dr. Rotella and Dr. Siekierka’s collaborative research with Rutgers University will support the design, synthesis, and characterization of potential inhibitors of P. falciparum Protein Kinase G (PfPKG) as antimalarial agents.

Gerard Costa and Kaitlin Mulcahy • Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health
FY19 Socio-Emotional Formation Initiative (SEFI)
New Jersey Department of Human Services
$1,700,000
SEFI supports the statewide integration of professional development opportunities aimed at promoting the social and emotional well-being and inclusion of all infants, toddlers and young children with and without developmental, emotional and behavioral difficulties. SEFI approaches this work through the full continuum of promotion, prevention, and intervention efforts. SEFI works with the state’s Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS), called “Grow NJ Kids”. SEFI staff work with the early childhood education and care centers throughout the state, providing education, support and soon will expand to provide infant & early childhood mental health consultation services.

Willard Gingerich • Academic Affairs
Joana Dos Santos • University Facilities
Saliya Desilva • Chemistry and Biochemistry
GROWING APPRENTICESHIP IN NONTRADITIONAL SECTORS (GAINS): MSU New Jersey DOL Apprenticeship Program (MAP)
NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development
$523,380
The MSU MAP Program establishes apprenticeships that align with MSU’s mission to serve the educational needs of New Jersey through a comprehensive range of programs. They include an Employer Model Apprenticeship in Facilities, and Workforce Intermediary Apprenticeships in Child Advocacy and Social Work and Chemical/Medical Technology.

Andrada Ivanescu • Mathematical Sciences
Statistical analysis of QTVI data during sleep
Johns Hopkins University
$30,000
This collaborative project with Johns Hopkins University is focused on modeling QTVI data during sleep for study participants who are healthy as well as study participants who take methadone. The difference between these groups will be analyzed during different stages of sleep while accounting for time to sleep onset and other baseline covariates. Dr. Ivanescu will be involved in collaborative initiatives for research on QTVI modeling using statistical methods with the JHU Department of Medicine research group.

Reva Jaffe-Walter • Educational Leadership
Improving the Experiences and Outcomes of Immigrant Youth: an Examination of the INPS – Year 3
William T. Grant Foundation
$25,299
In participation with researchers from New York University and the Research Alliance for New York City Public Schools on this $600,000-awarded project, Dr. Jaffe-Walter will lead qualitative research in four immigrant serving case study schools in order to understand the practices and structures that promote positive outcomes for recently immigrant students.

Christopher Leberknight • Computer Science
Anna Feldman • Linguistics
SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: A Linguistically-Informed Approach for Measuring and Circumventing Internet Censorship – Year 3
National Science Foundation
$171,497
This collaborative project with Princeton University—with a total award of $1,040,850 between both institutions—will apply computer science and linguistics to develop new Internet censorship detection and circumvention techniques.

Robert Reid • Family and Child Studies
Pauline Garcia-Reid • Family and Child Studies
Project C.O.P.E. – Year 5
US Department of Health & Human Services/SAMHSA
$283,875
Dr. Reid and Dr. Garcia-Reid’s Project C.O.P.E. works to prevent substance abuse and the spread of HIV among African American and Latino youth in Paterson, NJ.

Jude Uy • Counseling & Psychological Services
Project Suicide Awareness Violence Education and Response (Project SAVER) at ����vlog – Year 3
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
$102,000
In year three of a three year program, Project SAVER will support mental health services on campus focused on suicide and self and other directed violence prevention. The initiatives proposed by Project SAVER are comprised of two major components, a University on-campus initiative, known as Project HawkSAVER, and an off-campus initiative to establish a consortium for suicide prevention among institutions of higher education throughout the state of New Jersey, or The University and College Alliance for Prevention of Suicide (UCAPS).

Lora Billings • Dean’s Office, CSAM
Yvonne Gindt • Chemistry and Biochemistry
Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Garden State LSAMP
National Science Foundation
$51,473
This award continues the Garden State LSAMP (GSLSAMP) led by Rutgers Newark, in which MSU has been an active participant for nine years. GSLSAMP is a non-medical Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program designed to increase the number of professionals from minority groups that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields.

Paul Bologna • Biology
John Gaynor • Biology
Assessment of Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus Vertens Populations in the Shrewsbury River Estuary and the Manasquan River Estuary – Supplement
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
$22,500
With more support and supplemental funding in year four of this study, Dr. Bologna and Dr. Gaynor will provide data to identify and quantify the distribution and abundance of G. vertens–invasive clinging jellyfish–from the Shrewsbury Estuary and the Manasquan River Estuary.

Yang Deng • Earth and Environmental Studies
Towards Innovative and Green Water Reuse with Integrated Constructed Wetlands and Ferrate(VI) Treatment
U.S. – Egypt S&T Joint Fund
$97,692
In the first year of a three-year, $189,543 award, ����vlog and the National Research Centre in Egypt will collaborate to provide the scientific basis for the combined use of constructed wetlands and ferrate(VI) for addressing multiple chemical and microbial contaminants in municipal wastewater, and to enable a design capable of demonstrating long-term performance of the combined systems for agricultural water reuse.

Marc Favata • Mathematical Sciences
CAREER: Research and Education in Gravitational-Wave Science – Year 3
National Science Foundation
$77,812
In year three of a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, Dr. Marc Favata will focus his study on the gravitational-wave memory effect and modeling signals from compact binaries with elliptical orbits. The research will directly involve undergraduate and master’s degree students at ����vlog.

Margaret Freedson • Early Childhood/Elementary Education
International Consortium for Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE) – Supplement
US Department of Education
$19,778
This supplemental award, funded by a subaward from University of Nebraska Lincoln, will support Dr. Freedson’s work as part of the International Consortium of Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE) Design Team to develop an online professional development workshop for in-service teachers with the proposed title, Supporting Newcomers and Students with Interrupted Formal Schooling.

Andrada Ivanescu • Mathematical Sciences
Child growth curve dynamic modeling
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$10,108
In this collaboration with John Hopkins University, Dr. Ivanescu will use statistical methods for dynamic modeling of child growth data from rural areas of the Peruvian Andes.

Eden Kyse • Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services
2019 New Jersey Middle School Risk and Protective Factor Survey
NJ Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Statistic Services
$750,378
The Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services (CREEHS) will be responsible for the preparation and administration of a state-wide survey of middle school students about attitudes and behaviors around substance abuse and other risk and protective factors, as well as the analysis and reporting of survey results.

Donna Lorenzo • Health Careers
����vlog Upward Bound Project – Year 3
US Department of Education
$287,537
Funding for year three of Montclair State’s Upward Bound Project (UB) delivers educational opportunities for currently enrolled high school students, who come from low level income families and/or who are potential first-generation college attendees. UB provides fundamental support for participants to succeed in their current level of education as well as preparing them in their pursuit of higher education.

Rodica Martin • Physics and Astronomy
Faraday Isolator Optical Design and Test
National Science Foundation
$182,384
����vlog and the University of Florida will collaborate to build four Faraday isolators required for the A+ Upgrade Project, an upgrade to the existing Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors.

Patricia Tevington • Institute for Research on Youth Thriving and Evaluation
Understanding Americans’ Abortion Attitudes: A Proposal for Sociological Research
University of Notre Dame
$6,000
This funding from the University of Notre Dame will enable Dr. Tevington to conduct 40 in-depth interviews with participants living in the Philadelphia, PA area for a national study, “Understanding Americans’ Abortion Attitudes,” led by Dr. Tricia C. Bruce.